On the first half of the name the local historians agree: Pozzolo means the wells of the earliest settlements. On the second they do not. Canon Bottazzi held that it was Fornuce to begin with and that Formigaro arose to avoid a clash of names; in 1899 Ferretti and Remotti derived it from overcrowding.
The answer may lie in a chronicle of Tortona written around 1580 and printed only in 2001: almost every house, it says, has a well dug into earth and gravel; and the place is called Formigaro after the great ants of that countryside, which force the grain to be cut still a little green and carried off at once.
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📅 Every year, on 20 January; the town's summer festival is held the second Sunday of August
Pozzolo Formigaro celebrates Saint Sebastian on 20 January; on the second Sunday of August, the town's summer festival is held, with fireworks and a fair at the sports centre.
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Outside Pozzolo Formigaro, but an easy day trip away.
